If You Ask a Five-Year-Old,"If You Had Three Cookies and I

Multiple Choice

If you ask a five-year-old,"If you had three cookies and I gave you two more,how many cookies would you have altogether?",the preschooler would

A) be unlikely to be able to answer the question correctly.
B) probably solve the problem by counting on his fingers.
C) probably solve the problem by counting mentally.
D) probably solve the problem by retrieving the answer from memory.